I wasn't there!

August 10, 2004 10:51 PM

For the second time in as many years, the rhesus monkeys have escape from the Tulane University National Primate Research Center.
posted by Katemonkey (19 comments total)

Oh nuts. I noticed the missing "d" from "escaped" just as I hit post.
posted by Katemonkey at 10:52 PM on August 10, 2004

Oh no, not the Monkeys!!! They might have RAGE and we'll all be doomed!

I'm stocking up on guns, and moving to Scotland.
posted by sebas at 12:01 AM on August 11, 2004

These articles would have been better if they'd detailed the uncannily humanlike methods the monkeys used to escape. Of course, if they wrote about that, other monkeys might have... uh... read it... and... I guess... figured it out, too.
posted by interrobang at 12:09 AM on August 11, 2004

Sounds like the work of The Coalition of the Liberation of Itinerate Tree dwellers.
posted by whoshotwho at 12:26 AM on August 11, 2004

I just want to be the first to mention rhesus pieces.
posted by emelenjr at 1:01 AM on August 11, 2004

whoshotwho - would that be an offshoot of the Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes movement?
posted by longbaugh at 1:27 AM on August 11, 2004

Damn it! Why do I have to be out of work when all the excitement happens?

The New Iberia Research Center is not the same as the Tulane University National Primate Research Center, but it's news worthy anyhow.

Here's a local news link.
posted by puddsharp at 1:51 AM on August 11, 2004

You mean there are different monkeys running around?

Have I mentioned I wasn't there?
posted by Katemonkey at 1:54 AM on August 11, 2004

I just want to be the first to mention rhesus pieces.

There's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:03 AM on August 11, 2004

There should be a web page devoted to escaping monkeys, monkeys causing trouble, and monkeys up to entertaining shenanigans.

I must also add that I'm pretty damn excited about welcoming our new monkey overlords.
posted by ewkpates at 6:08 AM on August 11, 2004

I love monkeys.
posted by ewkpates at 6:08 AM on August 11, 2004

Bravo, Johnny. And I thought I was being clever.
posted by emelenjr at 6:35 AM on August 11, 2004

There's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.

Okay, that's a little sick. But I'll tell you what, buttercup: there's more than one way to eat a rhesus peanut.

Dammit, I told that wrong. Let me try again...
posted by chicobangs at 6:50 AM on August 11, 2004

MonkeyFilter.
posted by zpousman at 6:59 AM on August 11, 2004

I say "Pah!" to 'human error was to blame'.
Koko did it.
posted by apocalypse miaow at 10:52 AM on August 11, 2004

I'm fairly certain, as certain as I can be without having actual information, that the clever, human-like methods they used to escape somehow involved a top hat, a monocle and a tiny bicycle.

But it won't be a laughing matter when they take over the government, now will it?
posted by arto at 11:08 AM on August 11, 2004

I accuse this entire thread of being rhesist.
posted by Peter H at 1:10 PM on August 11, 2004

Rhesistance is futile.
posted by arto at 2:00 PM on August 11, 2004

Bat-a-rhesus not included.
Your parents have to get it together.
posted by chicobangs at 2:26 PM on August 11, 2004